[Andy McDandy]

They're not new to the Commons. There were other MPs of their party. They all sit together. Even without explicit instructions from Fargle, how difficult could it be to assume projecting an united front (regardless of going aye or nay) would be the best thing to do?

[mattomac]

I assume their only confusion was the position by Reform had flipped

[Abernathy]

This might be worth a shufti tonight, though I hope it isn’t Kuenssberg affording Farage more credibility than he deserves. Really should be a fucking assassination by rights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qyk6

[Andy McDandy]

I'll pass. It'll be a load of stuff I already know, topped with LK going "Some say yes, some say no. As for the future, we will see.", and every other shit current affairs cliche save for ending with "Back to you, Chris".

[Youngian]

Farage doesn't agree to interviews where there's any chance of facing uncomfortable questions.

[Oboogie]

This might be worth a shufti tonight, though I hope it isn’t Kuenssberg affording Farage more credibility than he deserves. Really should be a fucking assassination by rights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qyk6

Well I sat through it. Biggest overriding impression, they are so extraordinarily vacuous!! Given the opportunity to sell themselves, expand on policies, explain their ambitions, they fall silent, they have nothing but the sound bites you hear all the time in viral clips.
Maybe the most telling moment: Farage says the worst bit about his job is having to answer for every misdeed of every Reform Councillor. He said he's quite happy to answer for things he's said and done but not other people. Kuenssberg accuses him of not liking the responsibility of leadership and he, rather than deny it, says he doesn't like being let down.

Anybody who has ever risen above the bottom rung in any organisation quickly learns that they are responsible for the actions of their subordinates.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's not exactly answering for his schoolboy racism, is he? First it wasn't true, then it was just banter, even though many people are very clear it wasn't.

Has he admitted he got Trump wrong yet? He more than any British politician embraced him.

[Killer Whale]

In news from Wales-shire, in the west of England, as expected James Evans AS has joined Reform. Dan Thomas parachuted in as leader in Wales.

Loads and loads of anti-media sentiment at the press conference. The Welsh media has historically been a lot less deferential to Farage and his fellow travelers and they evidently don't like it up 'em.

[mattomac]

He's not exactly answering for his schoolboy racism, is he? First it wasn't true, then it was just banter, even though many people are very clear it wasn't.

Has he admitted he got Trump wrong yet? He more than any British politician embraced him.

Well Kemi has also sided herself with Trump especially in relation to Chagos, I would be really careful doing that.

[Oboogie]

He's not exactly answering for his schoolboy racism, is he? First it wasn't true, then it was just banter, even though many people are very clear it wasn't.

No he isn't and there was nothing new about that in last night's documentary which wasn't in the earlier Panorama expose, Essentially his line is that all schoolboys were racist in the '70s and it was just banter. In fact two Jewish boys* who were in 6th Form with him have written to him to say they think he did nothing wrong, so it's all fine.

* unnamed and probably fictional

[Abernathy]

I watched the Panorama doco too, excruciating experience though it was. Thing that struck me other than all the stuff we already knew was that these fuckers seem to have loads a money. That smarmy chairman cunt was showing Kuenssberg round their expensive looking new HQ in the Millbank Tower, and apparently they have their own TV studio facility with broadcast capability - at least to their membership.

The other notable thing was the teenaged Reform councillor . Dim as a 5 watt bulb.

[Oboogie]

The other notable thing was the teenaged Reform councillor . Dim as a 5 watt bulb.

Yes he was extraordinary, I'm amazed Reform didn't lock him in a cupboard until Kuenssberg had gone away.

[RedSparrows]

This might be worth a shufti tonight, though I hope it isn’t Kuenssberg affording Farage more credibility than he deserves. Really should be a fucking assassination by rights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qyk6

Well I sat through it. Biggest overriding impression, they are so extraordinarily vacuous!! Given the opportunity to sell themselves, expand on policies, explain their ambitions, they fall silent, they have nothing but the sound bites you hear all the time in viral clips.
Maybe the most telling moment: Farage says the worst bit about his job is having to answer for every misdeed of every Reform Councillor. He said he's quite happy to answer for things he's said and done but not other people. Kuenssberg accuses him of not liking the responsibility of leadership and he, rather than deny it, says he doesn't like being let down.

Anybody who has ever risen above the bottom rung in any organisation quickly learns that they are responsible for the actions of their subordinates.

Vacuity is surely issue no. 1 with Reform, or joint first with their moronic prejudices, both in substance and in terms of the story about them. It's like a perfect storm of shite where vibe politics meets vibe journalism. 'People are saying' = hard hitting truths.

[Watchman]

The other notable thing was the teenaged Reform councillor . Dim as a 5 watt bulb.

Yes he was extraordinary, I'm amazed Reform didn't lock him in a cupboard until Kuenssberg had gone away.

There seems to be a few of those “making a name for themselves” in country councils

[Andy McDandy]

People are voting for the party, and nobody's examining the candidates beyond their ability to read a script.